Washington: A Life

Reducere. Discover how George Washington Carver went from a slave to an innovator of agricultural science in this luminously illustrated picture book. Born a...

Reducere. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's...

Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its ...

Reducere. Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Childre...

From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of st...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Katharine GrahamIllustration(s): 12 PHOTOGRAPHSNumber of pages: 832Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 134 ...

Reducere. A mid-1800s surge of White immigrants incited a cataclysmic upheaval that jeopardized the very existence of the Plateau's native people. Chief Kami...

Reducere. DescriptionAttempts by evangelical Christians to claim Washington and other founders as their own, and scholars' ongoing attempts to contradict the...

In 1985, photographer and writer Vickie Jensen spent three months with Nisga'a artist Norman Tait and his crew of young carvers as they transformed...

Reducere. From acclaimed poet and novelist Jill Bialosky, the New York Times bestselling exploration of her sister's suicide and the lifelong impact it had o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Biography of Stan LeeComic books were never his thing from the start. In fact, comic books during Stan Lee's boyhood years were prim...

One man. Ten extraordinary quests. Bestselling author and human guinea pig A. J. Jacobs puts his life to the test and reports on the surprising and...

Reducere. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the pr...

Reducere. DescriptionA children's book snippet about the life, accomplishments, and achievements of the great Booker T. Washington - an inspirational African...

Reducere. Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its t...

Reducere. Sometimes finding your own voice is a matter of listening to the heart.... Jodi Picoult's powerful novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage t...

Reducere. No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. "Many say I was the best g...

When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of earl...